Mound City, MissouriVol. 130, No. 34

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Thursday • March 4 • 2010

The CFX Hornets- Secured their conference title position this week after claiming victories over the Nodaway-Holt Trojans and the Mound City Panthers. In similarily close contests, they defeated the Trojans 52-49 and the Panthers 55-51. The champion-ship is the first conference title in 33 years at Craig and in 15 years at Fairfax. Confer-ence champs left to right, front row: Jordan Stoner, Tristan Ray, Wyatt Drewes, Thauan Andrade, Tyler Brandt, Jacob Beck and Nathan Hinrichs. Back row: Assistant Coach Ryan Madden, Alex Roland, Kevin Dodson, Graham Scarbrough, Jordan Sipes, Spencer Barnes, Garrett Hinrichs, Jordan Showalter and Head Coach Terry Petersen.

Conference Champs

New principals for Nodaway-Holt

The elementary and high school principal positions will change this coming year at the Nodaway-Holt schools, but the faces will still be familiar.

High school principal, Jenny Saunders, resigned after being at Nodaway-Holt for four years. Ethan Sickels, Nodaway-Holt El-ementary Principal, will become the new high school principal for the 2010-2011 school year. Mr. Sickels has been the elementary princi-pal for two years. His other duties have also included boys high school basketball coach, junior high football coach and special education director.

The elementary princi-pal’s position will be filled in house by 25 year veteran,

Mrs. Rita Carroll. Mrs. Car-roll has worked at the Nod-away-Holt District in many capacities for over 25 years. She has been a substitute teacher, Title I Math Teach-er, Teacher of the Gifted Pro-gram, PAT Parent Educator, Kindergarten teacher for 14 years and most recently the Reading Coach.

“I am enthusiastic about working with the students, staff, parents and commu-nity members at Nodaway-Holt,” commented Mrs. Car-roll.

Rita completed her special-ist degree in elementary ad-ministration in December of 2009 at Northwest Missouri State University, where she had previously aquired her bachelor’s and master’s de-grees.

Diana White to retire from Mound City School District

Mrs. Diana White, 30- year business teacher at Mound City R-2, recently turned in her resignation and is set to retire at the end of this school year.

Diana spent the first four years of her career at her alma mater, Rock Port, where she taught her sister as well as Shelly Eaton, who later came and student taught with Diana in the busi-ness department.

Diana started teaching in Mound City in the fall of 1980. She has worn many hats during her three decades of service to the dis-trict. She has been junior sponsor, concession stand manager, Academic Bowl Coach, classroom teacher, served on the State Adviso-ry Committee for Academic Bowl and was a “mom to a bunch of kids”.

As a business teacher, Mrs. White has had to con-tinually evolve as technol-ogy advanced. On her first day of class, Diana walked into a room with 12 manual typewriters. In 1983, Diana recalled getting “Baby”, the school’s first computer, that in later years was trans-

formed into a classroom plant holder. That year, she taught 13 kids how to pro-gram a computer, with only “Baby”. In 1988, Diana got a master’s in teaching com-puters to be able to keep the computers in her class-room. Now her classroom has evolved to 20 computers, a smartboard, projector and scanner.

“I’ve never been able to stop learning,” Diana com-mented. “As a business teacher, you are constantly being challenged with new technology.”

When asked how one de-cides to come back year af-ter year, for 30 years, Diana

said, “The kids - It was fun to watch the kids begin my class know-ing very little about a subject and watch them grow throughout the year.”

One of the rewards has been the students returning to her saying, “You were right Mrs. White, I’m really using what you taught me in class in - life - college -- etc.” or “I use that ‘stupid notebook’ all the time at college, even my roommate asks to bor-

row it”.Claiming two state cham-

pionships in Academic Bowl and being named Coach of the Year are among Diana’s career highlights. Her class-room walls are clad with plaques of business contest winners as well as other aca-demic bowl trophies.

Many memorable moments have left their mark indel-ibly on her mind, memories which she will cherish as she begins her retirement years. These retirement years will be filled with travel, substi-tuting, quilting and taking care of a new grandbaby.

Mound City elementary “Olympic Athletes”- From Team Burge, Team Brandon, Team Edwards and Team Maud-erly’s classes are pictured above compet-ing in an afternoon of curling, hockey and bobsledding events. The friendly competi-tions were planned by Brooke Crawford, PE teacher, and Ms. Berg, her student teacher.

Bobsledding teams- Were having fun competing in the gym on Friday, February 26. Two teams of two each raced around the “track” for time. Pictured above are students preparing to make the first turn from Team Edwards and Team Mauderly. The team members left to right include

The Preschool Olympic Mural- Was proudly displayed in the lower hallway at Mound City School. The preschool class spearheaded the Olympic Events and ended up win-ning the gold. Preschool students pictured with their gold medals are left to right: Quinton Brandon, Jazmine Talbot, Rhylan Hall and Shailea Panning.

Mound City Elementary holds Olympic competitions

The Mound City Elementa-ry students got into the “spir-it” of the Olympics by holding their own Olympic events during the two-week event.

Lisa Caton, preschool teach-er, inspired by the Olympic games, decided to incorporate the games into the classroom curriculum, creating many op-portunities to teach and learn new and interesting lessons. The idea spread, becoming el-ementary team competitions.

Each classroom became a team and competed against the other teams in a number of “Olympic Games”.

The teams had to create their own chant or cheer, write an Olympic size poem, design an Olympic mural and participate in an Olym-pic trivia contest. They did Olympic Speed Skating- skat-ing through a course on paper

plates while showing reading knowledge; Olympic Sports in Action- teamwork on decid-ing how specific sports were played; Olympic Oreo Stack-ing (self explanatory); Olym-pic Snowball Throw- create a snowball with any non-harm-ful classroom material and see how far it would fly, and the Olympic Reading Chal-lenge- number of books read per class.

The two weeks of activities culminated in fun Olympic games in the gym on Fri-day, February 26. The teams played hockey, and did curl-ing and bobsledding.

Earning the gold medal in the two-week long Olym-pic events was Team Caton (preschoolers). Team Noble (kindergarten) won the silver medal and Team Forehand (first grade) won the bronze.

Ethan Sickels, left, and Rita Carroll, right

Robin Wilcoxson, Madison Hopkins and pushing the other bobsled is Trevor VanHoutan.

See page 8 for stats

2nd annual Library book sale

The 2nd annual Mound City Library book sale will be held Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6, at the McRae Commu-nity Building (The Klub) in Mound City, MO.

Friends of the Library pre-sale will be Friday, March 5, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., with the public sale being on Fri-day, March 5, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, March 6, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Graham Lions Club fish and chicken fry

The Graham Lions Club will be sponsoring a fish and chicken fry on Saturday, March 6, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the community building in Graham, MO.

The all you can eat din-ner is $9.50 for adults and $4.00 for children.

Refuge habitat workday scheduled

A habitat workday for the Squaw Creek Refuge will be held on Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Equipment will be loaded at the refuge head-quarters at 8:30 a.m. The goal is to clear out brush near the Mike Callow me-morial.

All volunteers are wel-come.

Kiwanis to host pancake breakfast

The Mound City Kiwan-is Club will be hosting an all you can eat pancake breakfast on Saturday, March 6, from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., at the Mound City Nutrition Site.

The breakfast will also consist of sausage and scrambled eggs. Admis-sion will be $5 a person. All proceeds will go to the site.

Last chance for Aruba vacation

The Mound City Com-munity Building will be holding the drawing for the 2010 Aruba vacation giveaway today, March 4, at The Klub in Mound City.

The vacation includes a week’s accommodation at a privately owned townhome at Gold Coast Aruba. It also includes two round trip air-line credits.

Funds from this raffle will be used to paint the building and make im-provements to the deck.

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“I remember when...” is often the beginning of a story that takes you back. A night full of those stories and more is taking place on Saturday, March 27, 2010, at the Community Hospital-Fairfax (CH-F) Celebrity Wai ter Dinner. The Celeb-rity Waiter Dinner will take place at 5:30 p.m. at Fair-fax High School in Fairfax, MO. The CH-F Development Coun cil has planned a night of dinner and entertainment for the community where the hospital’s own radio station, “WCHF 49.9”, will count down 60 years worth of greatest hits.

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entertainment by Elvis, the Andrews Sisters, Elton John and more, including surprise guests. High school musical groups from local schools will also perform.

For the past 13 years, proceeds from the Celeb-rity Waiter Dinner have been used to purchase vital equipment and this year is no different. The event will not only lead guests in a celebration of the hospital’s 60th anniversary serving the community, but will also help make the purchase of a BiPap machine possible. A BiPap is a machine used to help patients suffering from

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Mound City Kiwanis Club

The Mound City Kiwanis Club met at the United Methodist Church on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, with 14 members and 2 guests present – Brian Tubbs and Tommye Quilty.

Treasurer Dave Frede gave a financial report.

Member Ronald Bell attended the Mid-Winter Kiwanis Conven-tion February 19-21 in Branson and gave a brief summary of the convention. The Kiwanis Club financially supported his atten-dance.

The Club agreed to donate $200 to Mound City toward brackets for the Refuge 75th Anniversary banners. The Refuge will be re-ceiving the banners next week and will be given to Mound City to begin making the brackets.

A sign up sheet was passed around for workers for the March 6 Pancake Feed fund raiser for the Mound City Nutrition Site. All profits will be donated to the Site.

The Club spent $300 for t-shirts and other items for the Terrific Kids’ program.

There was discussion about the June 12 Trap Shoot and the support of any additional events during and after the shoot. Jon-athan Miller, Joe Laukemper, Corey Gordon and Larry Thomas volunteered to form a committee for the event. A July 4 commit-tee was also formed and included Paul Grant and Charlie Clod-felter.

Oregon lodge to hold meeting

Oregon Lodge #139 AF & AM will meet in regular communication at the Lodge Hall in Forest City, MO, on Monday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m.

There will be voting on pe-titions and planning for the Child ID event in April.

Mound City Nutrition Site newsVolunteers the week of

March 1 were Bill and Don-na Golden, Addie Trimmer, Lois Deatz, Linda Elton, Sharon Patton, Yogi Swy-meler, Kenneth and Irene Caton, Gailen and Marilyn Robbins, Wayne Voltmer and Emmie, Edwin Jones, Wayne White, Walt and Pat Groves, Bruce Biermann, Gene and Bev Miller, Herb and Mary Ann Beggs, Jeremy Wittwer, Ed Meng, Carolyn Roberts, Phyllis Ball, Karen Gil-land, Lela Boyd and Peggy Kneale.

Delivering meals the week of March 8:

Craig- Monday through Friday- St. Peter’s Lutheran Church

Mound City- Monday and Tuesday- First Christian Church, Wednesday- Yogi Swymeler, Thursday and Friday- Concordia Lutheran Church

Oregon and Forest City- Monday through Fri-day- Presbyterian Church

The site is providing enve-lopes for receipts for seniors participating in the Mound City Foods scholarship pro-gram. The site will be col-lecting them until April 15.

The winner of the Febru-

ary product of the month drawing is Marjori Frost. She won a $10 gift certifi-cate that can be used at any of the Mound City Nutrition Site functions.

The March product of the month is single serve fruit, vegetables, canned meats, sandwich crackers (cheese or peanut butter) and pud-ding cups. The drawing will be held on March 31.

The site recycles cell phones, ink cartridges, newspapers, magazines, alu-minum cans for cancer and VHS tapes for Meril (Inde-pendent Living).

The site also provides a drop box for donations for the food pantry and a box for labels and box tops for the school.

Site ScheduleMarch 8- Exercises 8:30-

9:30 a.m., New Concepts Hearing Tests, etc. 12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.

March 9- Holt County Community Health- Blood Pressure screenings 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., Silver Lin-ings Bingo 11:30 a.m.

March 10- Exercises 8:30- 9:30 a.m.

March 12- Cinnamon rolls and donuts- 8:30 a.m.

until sold outMarch 27- Craft show

8:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. at the nutrition site- proceeds go to the site

Site MenuMonday, March 8- Slop-

py Joe on a bun, spinach, oven potatoes and peaches

Tuesday, March 9- Ham and beans, juice, coleslaw, cornbread and apple cobbler

Wednesday, March 10- Pork roast, mashed potatoes and gravy, carrots, hot bread and oatmeal raisin cookies

Thursday, March 11- Marinated chicken breast, baked potatoes, broccoli, hot bread and pudding

Friday, March 12- Tuna salad or ham salad, pasta salad, green beans, harvard beets and pears

Mound City R-2 Preschool and Kindergarten Screening will be held on April 6 and 7 from 7:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Preschool room. Parents need to call the elementary office at 442-5420 to sched-ule an appointment for their child.

Children must be 3 years old by the screening date in order to participate. This screening is available to all children residing in the Mound City district whether they are attending preschool or not. It provides parents with valuable information about their child in the de-velopmental areas of con-cepts, motor and language as well as hearing and vision.

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Mound City R-2 to host screening

Dear Editor,Did you attend the Mound City-CFX game Friday night?

If not, you missed the most competitive high school basket-ball game in a long time. The players gave 100%, but most important was the sportsmanship that was shown. Both teams showed respect for each other and the referees. This display should be noted and the young men commended for it.

A grandma from the bleachers,Jo Haer

Dear Editor,I have encountered questions on how the funds we raise

during our American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Holt County event is distributed to ‘us’. I’m not going to give you statistics, I’ll lose half of my readers, but I will give you something to think about.

First, let me ask you all a question...have you or a loved one ever had a mammogram, a pap smear, a mole removed and tested or, men, a PSA test? If you have, then you have reaped the benefits of all of the American Cancer Society (ACS) fundraising efforts. Research is key. Cancer IS being cured. Tests are being developed and perfected every day that catch cancer in early stages and make it much more possible to cure.

Second, ACS was vital in informing us of how important using sunscreen is, the very real risks of smoking and sec-ond-hand smoke, and to do regular self breast exams. Funds for this research and ultimately raising public awareness is also possible because of money raised by ACS fundraisers.

We ALL benefit in some way because of the fundraising efforts of ACS.

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Letters to the Editor

a copy of their child’s birth certificate, current immuni-zations and social security card to the screening.

Children younger than three may be screened by contacting Gwen Knowles, PAT coordinator at 442-5420.

Mound City R-2 Preschool is also currently accepting enrollment applications. Children must be three or four years old by August 1 to be eligible to attend pre-school for the 2010-11 school year. Please contact Pre-school teacher, Lisa Caton, at 442-5420 with additional questions or to request an enrollment form.

If you know of anyone in the Mound City School Dis-trict that has children eligi-ble for screening or is inter-ested in enrolling a child in preschool, please share this information with them.

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The American Legion dis-trict meeting will be held on Sunday, March 14, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at American Le-gion Post #287 in Savannah, MO.

American Legion district meeting

Keenagers Club

The Keenagers Club met Monday, March 1, at the Senior Center in Maitland, MO.

Six members and two guests attended. The two guests were Beverly Gra-ham, who is a driver for the group, and Evelyn Haeffele. Both ladies are from Mound City, MO.

Inez VanOrman was host-ess for the day. A delicious potpie meal was enjoyed by the group.

After lunch, the group played cards. The high score at pinochle was Jeanette Smock, with second high go-ing to guest, Evelyn Haef-fele.

The next meeting of the Club will be March 15 with Eileen Wyman as hostess.

News from Tiffany HeightsResidents enjoyed the af-

ternoon on Monday, March 1, by playing a word game. This month they played the game using information about presidents. Residents were asked questions about the presidents and their lives both private and political. The resident to answer five correct questions was the winner of the game. Fran-ces Martin was our smartest fact person. There was also an open question time that was just about fun and more common known facts.

The residents held their great pancake races on Tues-day afternoon, using real pancakes. Residents played the first race as a group. They divided into teams and were asked to pass the pan-cake, on a spatula, and not to touch it. If it fell, it was replaced by the team lead-ers, which were Cindy Heck and the speech therapist. Cindy Heck’s team was the fastest. They then played pancake toss and everyone had to toss and catch the pancake. Cindy’s team won again but by the end of this game, they needed to make new pancakes. The third game was to flip and catch the pancake on the spatula. Winners of this game were Lucyle Benne, Helen Gomel, Alice McCartney and Fran-ces Martin.

Residents were then given a brief history of the pan-

cake, which started out with meats in it. They also were told how other countries made and used this mostly breakfast food. Everyone got a gold dollar to eat, which turned out to be a bite size pancake with butter and peanut butter. They enjoyed this treat in the middle of the day.

Residents are getting ex-cited about the approaching spring weather and spent the afternoon on Wednesday getting ready for this new month.

The F.F.A. celebrated their national founding this week. They were organized in 1928. Among the many fun things they planned during the week was providing priz-es and assisting in bingo on Thursday afternoon. F.F.A. members assisting this week were Shelby Culp, Loni Jo Weber, Morgan Burge, Gage Rosier, Ryan Crowley, Laura Schoonover, James Schoon-over, Kyler VanSchoiack, Taylor Blevens, Nathan Brickey, Zach Kahle, Miles Jumps, Drew Ireland, Zach Gilland, Prent Eaton, and sponsor Mr. Gomel.

Name Game was played during the afternoon on Fri-day. “Ground hog shadow” were the words chosen for the month. Residents were able to make only 120 dif-ferent words from these let-ters. They decided we really needed an “e” to make this more exciting.

Larry Brickey and family provided Sunday morning services.

TOPS meeting

TOPS #1163 met Monday, March 1, at the Concordia Lu-theran Church. Leader Nina Boyd called the meeting to or-der.

Nine members were weighed in and the best loser was Nina Boyd.

Addie Trimmer read the min-utes and Peggy Kneale gave the treasurer’s report. Everyone drew a secret pal name. Officers were elected.

The next meeting will be March 8. Exercises will be at 3:45 p.m. and weigh in is at 4:30 p.m.

The second annual big book sale is this weekend at The Klub. Hundreds of do-nated books have been added to duplicates and old books culled from the Mound City Library to make room for new books.

Library Director Cindy Grant said more than 2,000 books will be on tables in the Exchange Room at The Klub. CDs, DVDs, movies and books on tape will also be sold at garage sale pric-es.

A pre-sale will be open to members of the Friends group from noon to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 5. Annual membership fees are just $10 for individuals and $25 for a family. If one wants to get in on the early shopping, pay the dues and get a free

Friends of the Library book bag.

The sale to the public starts at 4:00 p.m. on Friday in the Exchange Room at The Klub and runs to 8:00 p.m. It resumes at 8:00 a.m. Saturday, March 6, and runs until 3:00 p.m., or until ev-erything is sold.

Organized and staffed by Friends of the Mound City Public Library, the book sales raise money for library activities and improve-ments. Proceeds from last year’s sale and other fund-raisers held by the Friends group were used to help pay for the new circulation desk and bulletin boards custom-built by Tracy Nauman, and for other new items in the new library space, including interior and outside signs.

2nd annual Mound City Library book sale

Holt County Arrest report

Christopher R. Fan-sher, 36, of Oregon, MO, was taken into custody on March 1 at 5:57 p.m. for possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated- Class B, operating a motor vehicle in an intoxicated condition - Class B, and speeding. He was taken to the Holt County Jail on a 24 hour hold.

Mary Louise (Andrews) Hubbard

Mary Hubbard, 87, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 21, 2010, at McAl-len Medical Center, McAllen, TX, after a lengthy illness.

Mary was born in Holt County, MO, to Walter and Maryann Andrews on Feb-ruary 25, 1922. She married Manning Eldon Hubbard on December 8, 1950, to whom she was faithfully married for 54 years. She was preced-ed in death by her parents, husband and a sister, Betty Yocum.

Mary is survived by her children, SuzAnne Albright

and her husband Gary of McAllen, TX, and James Manning Hubbard and his wife Jean of Allen Park, MI; her loving grandchildren, Jacob Albright of McAllen, TX, Jessi Albright of Edin-burg, TX, Jeffrey Albright, McAllen, TX, Joshua Hub-bard and his wife Cassandra of Taylor, MI, and Jonathan Hubbard and his wife Kelly of Allen Park. She is also survived by her brother, Ted Andrews and his wife Eliza-beth of Wichita, KS, and her sister Marjorie Yocum of Mound City, MO, as well as numerous nieces and neph-ews.

Raised in Missouri, Mary moved to Michigan with her new husband, John, in 1950. After the birth of their chil-dren, they began attending Inter-City Baptist Church in Allen Park, MI. Upon hear-ing the Gospel, she recog-nized her need of a Savior, realized Jesus Christ had paid the penalty for her sin and accepted His free gift of salvation. Because of her de-cision, we know she is with the Lord today- absent from the body and present with the Lord.

Mary was a faithful mem-ber of Inter-City for over 50 years. She used her talents in many areas of church life: 2nd grade Sunday school superintendent, cook for visitation suppers, banquets and weddings, Jr. Church worker and maintenance supervisor. She was a lov-ing wife, mother and grand-mother who kept the home running smoothly while John worked shift work for 40 years; cooking meals at all hours to accommodate John’s work schedule; and sewing clothes for the chil-dren and others, while rare-ly missing a church service. Her example of faithfulness, perseverance and humility are a testament to God’s re-fining work in her life. She was dearly loved and will be greatly missed.

Mrs. ‘Bobbie’ Louise Kerns, 85, Mound City, MO, passed away Friday, Febru-ary 26, 2010, at a Mound City healthcare center.

Bobbie was born May 1, 1924, in Mound City, where she attended the former Bel-levue School north of Mound City.

She worked as a wait-ress for numerous years at various restaurants in the Mound City area, including the former Kee Café, the for-mer Robinson Café, Schoon-over’s, The Klub and the Big Lake Lodge to name a few. She loved flowers, garden-ing, watching birds and col-lecting bird figurines.

Bobbie married Claude H. Diggs and they were later divorced. Later, she married Thomas Kerns and he pre-ceded her in death in 1965.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, Cecil and Sylvia (Smith) Nauman; her sister, Dorothy Duncan; two brothers, Russell Nau-man and Virgil Smith; and twin grandsons, Cash & Cole Kerns.

Survivors include her daughter, Tammy and her husband, Patrick Long of Mound City; two sons, Danny and his wife, Bev-erly Diggs of Mound City, Tom and his wife, Janelle Kerns of Mound City; six grandchildren, Hope Radley, Chandra McCarty, Stephen Long, Kalab Long, Melisa Allan and Wyatt Kerns; sev-en great- grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Services were held Tues-day, March 2, at 2:00 p.m. by the Pettijohn & Crawford Family Funeral Service. In-terment was held at New Liberty Cemetery in Mound City.

The family suggests me-morial gifts to Kendallwood Hospice.

Louise Kerns

Dena Rae Evans, 66, St. Joseph, MO, passed away Sunday, February 28, 2010, at Heartland Regional Medi-cal Center.

Dena was born on July 30, 1943, in New Point, MO, to Dale and Blanche (Cochran) Bender.

Survivors include her two daughters, Dee Ann Evans-Conner and her husband Eric and Donna Evans-Cox and her husband James, all of St. Joseph, MO; grand-children, Katelyn and Bry-son Conner, and Jamie and Jackie Cox; one brother, Vi-ron K. Bender, Oregon, MO; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services will be held on Thursday, March 4th at 2:00 p.m. at the Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Siden-faden Chapel. Interment at New Point Cemetery in New Point, MO.

Dena Rae Evans

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Rev. Leland LaRose, Pastor

Church of GodSunday School, 10:00 a.m., Worship, 11:00 a.m.

Area Church

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church(Services held at St. John’s) • (Mar. 8-12, Meals on Wheels)

Oregon Church of the Naza rene207 W. George • Keith Knaak, Pastor

Sunday School, 8 a.m., Worship Service, 9 a.m.

First United Presbyterian Church307 East 6th Street • Pastor, Robert HoenikeSunday School, 9:45 a.m., Worship, 11 a.m.

First Christian Church402 E. 5th Street • Paul Grant, Pastor

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m., Worship, 10:30 a.m.

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church303 Grand, Forest City • Father Peter Ullrich, OSB

Pastor and Parish Administrator

Benton ChurchAn 1880s Church in the 21st Century • Pastor Jim Broker

1/2 mile south of Eagle’s Nest Truck stop on Hwy. BBclosed for winter

Mound City United Methodist Church312 E. 7th St. • Pastor Crystal Karr

Sunday School, 9 a.m., Sunday Service, 10 a.m.

Christian Fellowship18080 Hwy. 59 • Jim Brown, Minister

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m., Worship, 10:30 a.m.Senior High Youth, 7:00 p.m., www.christian-fellowship.net

Big Lake Baptist Church213 Lake Shore Dr. • Karl Forehand, PastorBreakfast, 9 a.m., Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.,

Worship, 10:30 a.m.

The Lighthouse Exit 65 on I-29 • Pastors Tim and Faith Uzzle

Sunday Worship: 10 a.m., Thurs. Bible Study: 7 p.m.www.fillmorelight housechurch. org

Sharp’s Grove United Meth odist Church4.5 mi. north of Craig on Hwy. 59 • Rev. Crystal Karr

Worship Service, 8:45 a.m.

Craig Community Church of the Nazarene105 S. Ensworth Street • Keith Knaak, Pastor

Sunday School, 10 a.m., Worship Service, 11 a.m.Wed. Night Bible Study, 6 p.m., Wed. Kingdom Kids, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

First Christian Church4th and Ash • Bill Gazaway, Pastor

Sunday School, 9:15 a.m., Worship Service, 10 a.m.Sunday Night Worship, 7 p.m., Wed., Youth Rallies, 7 p.m.

St. John’s Lutheran Church112 Walters Street • Pastor W.J. Lowmaster

9:30 a.m., Bible/Midweek Classes, 10:30 a.m., Holy CommunionSun. 7, Potluck Dinner

United Methodist Church217 S. Maple Avenue • Connie Ury, Pastor

Worship Service, 9 a.m.

Graham Union ChurchSunday School, 9:30 a.m., Morning Worship, 10:30 a.m.

Evening Service, 6:30 p.m., Wednesday night, 7 p.m.

United Methodist ChurchConnie Ury, Pastor

Sunday School, 9 a.m., Worship, 10:15 a.m.

St. Oswald’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church30996 X Avenue, Skidmore, MO

2nd Sundays - 11 a.m., Morning Prayer service by Lay Reader4th Sundays - 11 a.m., Eucharist Service

New Point Christian Church24135 Stone Hill Rd. • Brian Buck, Minister

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m., Worship, 10:30 a.m.Fellowship Dinner, 4th Sunday of month following church

New Liberty Baptist ChurchCounty Road 140 • Dr. Everett Walden, PastorSunday School, 9:45 a.m., Worship, 10:30 a.m.

New Life Apostolic AssemblyU.P.C.I. - 307 E. 6th, Mound City • Pastor Scott Jordan

Currently meeting in the First United Presbyterian ChurchWorship Service, 2 p.m., Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.,

Life Night Bible Study & Revolution Youth Groupwww.newlifeapostolicassembly.org - 660-442-3441

Mound City Baptist Church1308 Savannah Street • Pastor James Waller

Sunday School, 10:15 a.m., Worship Service, 11:15 a.m.Tuesday Bible Study, Larry Brickey, 6:30 p.m.;

Sl@m City Youth Group, 6:30 p.m. - 816-616-0347

Community of Christ1410 Nebraska Street • Theresa Mackey, Pastor 660-446-2048

Sunday School, 10 a.m., Worship Service, 11 a.m.

Concordia Lutheran Church1413 Nebraska Street • Pastor W.J. Lowmaster 442-3414

9:00 a.m., Divine Worship, 10:15 a.m., Sunday SchoolThurs. 4, 7 p.m., Home Bible Study • Wed. 10, 7:30 p.m., Lenten Services

River of Hope Fellowship304 East 4th St., Mound City • 442-0197 or 442-6305

Pastor David ShowalterSunday School, 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10:30 a.m.

Craig Presbyterian ChurchWorship Service, 9:15 a.m.

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BOOK SALEBooks, Tapes, CDs, DVDsFri, March 5, 4-8 p.m.

Sat, March 6, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.Exchange Room at The Klub

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Miller family recognized nationally for angus breeding

Only 2,220 of the nearly 30,000 American Angus As-sociation members are rep-resented in this year’s 2010 Pathfinder Report, accord-ing to Bill Bowman, chief op-erating officer and director of performance programs of the sssociation with head-quarters in St. Joseph, MO.

The Pathfinder Program identifies superior Angus cows based upon recorded performance traits that are economically important to efficient beef production. These traits include early and regular calving and heavy weaning weights. Over 1.8 million eligible dams and more then six million wean-ing records were examined to determine Pathfinder status. All registered Angus cows that meet the strict

Pathfinder standards are listed, along with their own-ers, in the Pathfinder Report that is published annually by the association.

Kurt P. Miller of Mound City and Keith Z. Miller, Kenneth Roy Miller and Jackie Lee Miller, all of Craig, MO, have been rec-ognized nationally by the American Angus Association for their registered Angus cows. Kurt Miller was rec-ognized with one registered Angus cow, Keith was recog-nized with having eight reg-istered Angus cows, Kenneth was recognized with having 14 registered Angus cows and Jackie was recognized with having 11 registered Angus cows, which were all included in the association’s Pathfinder Report.

Robert and Robin Wright of Clarinda, IA, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Shelby Gayle, to Landon Lewellen, son of Randy and Barb Lewellen of Stanton, MO.

Shelby is a 2006 graduate of Stanton Community High School and will graduate from Northwest Missouri State University in May with a Pre-Professional Zoology degree.

Landon is a 2004 graduate of Stanton Community High School and a 2008 graduate of Simpson College in Indiano-la, IA, where he graduated with degrees in Criminal Justice and Sociology. Landon is employed by Cooper Nuclear Sta-tion in Brownville, NE, as an armed security officer.

A June 5, 2010, wedding is being planned in Stanton.

Gayle and Lewellen to wed

Beth Hare and Thomas Hare of Savannah, MO, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daugh-ter, Holly Heather Hare, to Aaron Wallace McCoppin, son of Lynn and Janice Mc-Coppin of Gladstone, MO. The bride-to-be is the grand-daughter of Izetta Castillo of Elmo, MO.

The future bride, a 1996 graduate of South Holt High School in Oregon, MO, re-ceived a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science

from Saint Louis Univer-sity in 2001 and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 2006. She is currently employed by Uni-versity Hospitals & Clinics as Chief Resident for the Department of Dermatology in Columbia, MO, and will be the procedural dermatol-ogy fellow at Emory Univer-sity in Atlanta, GA, after the wedding.

The future groom, a 1995 graduate of Smithville High School in Smithville, MO, re-ceived a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Missouri Western State Col-lege, St. Joseph, MO, in 2000 and a Masters of Business Administration from Baker University, Shawnee Mis-sion, KS, in 2004. He is cur-rently the Director of Mar-keting Project Management at Waddell & Reed Financial Services in Shawnee, KS.

A May 1, 2010, wedding is planned at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph with a re-ception at the Saint Joseph Country Club.

Hare and McCoppin plan May wedding

Hunzigers to celebrate 60th wedding anniversary

Thomas and Shirley (Grimes) Hunziger were married March 12, 1950, at the home of Reverend Purdy in St. Joseph, MO. They have lived and farmed in the Or-egon, MO, area for their en-tire married life.

They are the parents of six children: Stephen and his wife Rhonda of Craig, MO; Russell and his wife Sha-ron of Forest City, MO; Alvin and his wife Marcia of Atchi-son, KS; Edward of Forest City, MO; Lori Schaeffer of Oregon, MO; and Patricia Schoonover and her husband

Bryce of Mound City, MO.They have 18 grandchil-

dren, 1 stepgranddaughter, 7 great-grandchildren and 2 stepgreat-grandchildren.

Tom and Shirley will be honored at an open house reception on Sunday, March 14, from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the TJ Hall building in Oregon. Friends and rela-tives are invited to join them with their family as they cel-ebrate this milestone event.

Cards may be sent to the honorees at 30153 Holt 300, Oregon, MO 64473.

Another birthday passes for missing Skidmore, MO, man

Branson Perry would have turned twenty-nine years old on February 24. On April 11th of 2001, Branson Perry disappeared under myste-rious circumstances and from that point has seemed to have vanished without a trace. In the past years, many attempts to locate Branson have been made by law officials and search teams from the CUE Center for Missing Persons, but to no avail in his recovery.

It’s time to remind the public once again, that those who love him and involved in the search have not given up and to ask for that one person in the community who knows what happened to Branson Perry and or may know the location of his remains, to please step for-ward.

“Missing Person cases are

difficult for families that are left behind that deal daily with the unknown fate. I hope with our continued ef-forts, we will be able to pro-vide this family with some sort of resolution, that is what we truly hope for,” said Monica Caison, CUE’s founder.

If anyone knows the where-abouts of Branson Perry or may have information con-cerning this case, please con-tact the Missouri Highway Patrol at (816) 387-2345 or the CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1132 or (910) 232-1687, 24 hour line; all calls are kept confi-dential. They may also con-tact via email at cuecenter@aol.com or visit his personal website at http://www.bran-sonperry.com to submit a tip directly from that site.

Two Private Pesticide Applicator trainings scheduled

Private Pesticide Applicator training will be held on Tuesday, March 9, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Courthouse Annex confer-ence room in Oregon, MO. A second meeting will be held Monday, March 15, at 1:00 p.m. again at the Courthouse Annex in Oregon.

Private Applicator Pesticide licenses are for those who produce agricultural commodities and will be applying restricted use pes-ticides.

For more information, contact Wayne Flanary at 660-446-3724 or Heather Benedict at 660-425-6424, Regional Agronomist, Uni-versity of Missouri Extension.

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This Week’s History

• The resignation of Dean Heck, Holt County ASC office manager, was announced by county chairman, Milan Boswell. Heck, who had managed the office since its inception in October of 1953, planned to devote his full time to farming.

• After 50 years of business, Ray and Roy Carter, owners of the J. H. Carter Store in Mound City, MO, leased their building and sold their stock to the Shop-worth Food Stores. Employees Wendell Egbert (new manager), Otto Meyer, Homer King and Marjory Al-loway remained with the new organization.

• The Mound City Panthers beat Quitman in first round of the regional tournament at Fairfax. Gary Messick led the team with 18 points. Max Goolsby led them in a second round victory over Maitland with 15 points.

• The Skidmore basketball team won the district tour-nament, as well as their first state game at Maryville against Sheridan.

• Dave Holland, music instructor, and the Maitland School, hosted Bellevue, Mound CIty, Craig, Mait-land, Oregon and Forest City at the Holt County Music Clinic. 220 band members and 160 mixed chorus members performed at the final program.

50 Years Ago - 1960

25 Years Ago - 1985• The Burlington Northern Depot in Craig, MO, which had been abandoned for several years, was moved to its new location. A fund drive for the move was organized by City Manager Terry Eaton, a lot was donated by Tom Ward, and Billy Brandon was contracted to move the depot.

• Darrel Yocum was selected by the Mound City FFA Chapter as the Outstanding Businessman of the Year. Darrel had been in the fertilizer business for 18 years and owned his own company since 1978.

• Phil Morris was selected by the Mound City FFA Chapter as the Outstanding Farmer of the Year. Phil raised wheat, corn and soybeans as well as having cows and farrowing sows.

• The 275 Conference incepted the first Brain Bowl activity. Rich Reilly, Sally Bomar, Greta Heck and Nancy Gillis were on the inaugural team.

• The KQ-2 Networkers were obtained for a basket-ball exhibition against Mound City Lions Club mem-bers and volunteers. Funds raised by the Club will assist with Club projects.

• Andy and Tammy Heath presented a special pro-gram at the Mound City Community Building. The Dinner Show was a fund raiser for the building.

10 Years Ago - 2000

From the Mound City News archives

• Mound City fourth, fifth and sixth graders were set to perform their musical, “Rock Around the Block”, at the State Theater. Principal Jan Seitz was the di-rector, while Jason Eggers, music teacher, and Dee-Ann Heck, school food service manager, worked with the music portion of the performance. • Lions Club members, having volunteered their la-bor as a community project, worked at the former New Testament Church. The church was remodeled for the new day care and Head Start center.

• A thunderstorm dropped 7” of rain and hail in the area. Tornadoes and funnel clouds were sighted to the west and north.

•Alex Moore, Mound City R-2, won 1st place in the 6th-8th grade category of the Missouri Organ Do-nation Poster contest and received a $200 savings bond. Kristen Russell, South Holt R-I, won 1st place in the high school category and received a $500 savings bond.

Tuesday club meets

The February 23, 2010, meeting of the Tuesday Club was held at the home of Linda Creed with elev-en members answering the roll call of My Favor-ite Chocolate Indulgence. Members present were: Leisa Biermann, Patty Da-vis, Susan Laukemper, Ju-dith Long, Debbie Loucks, Judy McIntire, Jane Meadows, Sheri Meadows, Brenda Ryan, Kay Sither-wood and Linda Creed.

President Brenda Ryan conducted the business meeting.

Sheri Meadows present-ed an entertaining lesson on Chocolate Adventures. She stated that 99% of all women like chocolate. Two-thirds of the world’s chocolate is grown in Afri-ca and America eats 50% of all of the world’s chocolate. All real chocolate comes from a cocoa bean and the secret of chocolate appeal is the cocoa butter. The #1 favorite chocolate treat is Russell Stover’s Assorted Chocolates. Sheri dis-played a variety of candy bars and asked every-one to pick their favorite. Then she told about per-sonality traits with each choice. She concluded her program by display-ing chocolate designs and sharing chocolate hearts with everyone.

Delicious refreshments and a social hour followed. The next meeting will be March 9 at the home of Sheri Meadows.

Contractors’ workshop held

SWCD Board Chairman- Bruce Biermann welcomed the guests to the workshop.

Earthmoving and tiling contractors- Were guests at the Contractors’ Workshop, held on February 24 at Scheib Drainage in Oregon.

The Holt County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) along with the Natural Resources Conservation Ser-vice (NRCS) held a Contractors’ Workshop on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 24, 2010, at Scheib Drain-age Products in Oregon, MO.

Earthmoving and tiling con-tractors from several coun-ties including Holt, Nodaway, Atchison and Andrew were in attendance. Guests were wel-comed by opening remarks from

SWCD Board Chairman Bruce Biermann.

Workshop topics included an overview of NRCS Engineer-ing Specifications presented by NRCS Area Agriculture Engineer Brad Schreck. John Ceglenski of TransCanada Pipeline and Derek Leffert of Missouri One Call spoke about the importance of utilizing the Missouri One Call System prior to excavation.

The workshop concluded with

lunch provided by Don Scheib and the staff of Scheib Drain-age Products.

Holt SWCD Program Spe-cialist Regina Young said, “The Contractors’ Workshop is an effective way to communicate with area contractors regarding current issues.” Young added, “Helping contractors stay well informed is important to the success of our State Cost Share program as well as NRCS pro-grams.”

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Kelly Dougherty, daughter of John and Nancy Dougherty, Craig, MO, received a one rating at the Junior High Music Festival at Northwest Missouri State University on Satur-day, February 13. Kelly performed a vocal solo, titled “Sing Me to Sleep”, by Edwin Greene and earned the superior rating.

Kelly is an 8th grade student at Craig R-III School. She is the granddaughter of Dan and Janice Dougherty,

Mound City, MO, and Betty Johnson, Fairfax, MO.

Dougherty earns a one ratingThe Trojans had a fun-

filled week of basketball, having to make up a game along with their regular schedule.

In their first game of the week, the Nodaway-Holt Trojans hosted the Albany Warriors on Tuesday, Febru-ary 23.

The Lady Trojans fell to the Lady Warriors, 28-44. A slow start in the first quarter left the Lady Trojans down 4-6. The Lady Warriors put up 15 points in the second quarter to take a 21-11 lead at the half and finished with the win over the Lady Tro-jans.

Amanda O’Riley led the

Trojans wrap up regular season with four home games

Lady Trojans with 10 points. Alycia Keith had eight points, Jodi Holmes had six points and Brittany Shipps and Darcy Brown had two points each.

The Nodaway-Holt Tro-jans jumped out to a 15-10 first quarter start over the Albany Warriors. Tough de-fense kept the Warriors to four second quarter points giving the Trojans a 30-14 lead at the break.

A 16-point Trojan third quarter kept the Warriors at bay and Nodaway-Holt went on to win 55-37.

Eleven Trojans added to the scoring in the win. Car-son Long led with 12 points,

Driving around a CFX defender- Carson Long headed down the floor toward the Trojan basket. The Nodaway-Holt Trojans played the CFX Hornets on Wednesday, February 24. The Trojans fell to the Hornets, 49-52.

Lady Trojan Alicia Keith- Drove past CFX Lady Bull-dog Ashton Lewis in the Trojans game at home on Wednesday, February 24.

10 rebounds, three assists and six steals. Michael Brown had eight points, three rebounds, four assists and a steal. Zach Lemar had eight points, two rebounds, two assists and three steals. Patrick O’Riley had seven points, three rebounds, an as-sist and a steal. Blake Sham-berger had five points and six rebounds. Cody Ridler had four points and three rebounds. Mason Wakely had three points, three re-bounds and a steal. Aric Gazaway had two points, a rebound and an assist. Josh Schafer had two points, four rebounds and an assist. Nick Christian had two points and two rebounds. Marc Rosen-bohm had two points four rebounds, two assists and a steal. Brandon Saxton had a rebound and a steal.

The Trojans hosted the Craig/Fairfax teams on Wednesday, February 24, having been rescheduled from Friday, February 19. The home teams suffered two losses. The girls fell 59-23 and the boys lost a close one 52-49.

The Nodaway-Holt Tro-jans took a 17-14 lead over the CFX Hornets, but after a scoring drought in the sec-ond period, trailed 21-24 at the half.

That same margin pre-vailed for the duration of the game as the Trojans and Hornets scoring was flipflopped in the final two quarters, with the Trojans finishing with a 52-49 loss.

Michael Brown led the Trojans with 12 points, three rebounds, three assists and four steals. Carson Long had seven points, nine rebounds, six assists and three steals. Brandon Saxton had seven points and two rebounds. Cody Ridler had six points, six rebounds, an assist and two steals. Patrick O’Riley had six points, five rebounds, three assists and four steals. Zach Lemar had five points, a rebound, three assists and three steals. Blake Sham-berger had four points, 11 rebounds and an assist.Marc Rosenbohm had two points.

The Trojan teams hosted the Worth County Tigers in their third game in as many nights on Thursday, Febru-ary 25.

In the girls’ game, the Lady Trojans poured out 15 points to take a 15-10 lead at the end of the first quar-ter. Worth County outscored Nodaway-Holt in the second quarter to finish out the half with the Lady Trojans up 22-21.

The Lady Trojans scored seven points in the third pe-riod to leave them down 29-35, and finished with a 51-37 loss.

Alycia Keith led the Lady Trojans with 10 points, Jodi Holmes had nine points, Amanda O’Riley had eight points, Darcy Brown had six points and Brittany Shipps had four points.

The Trojans failed to make their mark in the first quar-ter, scoring only five points. A better second quarter still had them behind 18-24 at the half.

Despite outscoring the Ti-gers 12-11 in the third quar-ter and 13-16 in the fourth quarter, the Trojans suffered a 46-48 loss.

Carson Long led the Tro-jans with 16 points, seven rebounds, three assists and 11 steals. Patrick O’Riley had 11 points, seven re-bounds, one assist and one steal. Michael Brown had seven points, two rebounds, two assists and three steals.Zach Lemar had four points, five rebounds, three as-sists and three steals. Blake Shamberger had four points, four rebounds, an assist and a steal. Cody Ridler had two points, a rebound, an assist and a steal. Brandon Saxton had two points, an assist and a steal.

In the final game of the week, the Nodaway-Holt Trojans were host to the West Nodaway Rockets on Friday, February 26.

The Lady Trojans were blown away by a phenomi-nal West Nodaway 23-10 first quarter showing, and unable to recoup, fell to the Lady Rockets 54-27.

Alycia Keith had 11 points, Amanda O’Riley had eight points, Brittany Shipps and Jodi Holmes had four points each.

In the boys’ game, the Tro-jans went on a 28-16 scoring spree in the first quarter, of which the Rockets could not recover. The Trojans persist-ed in scoring to come away with an 87-61 win over the Rockets.

Patrick O’Riley led the team with 22 points, seven rebounds and three assists.Carson Long had 15 points, nine rebounds, eight assists and seven steals. Michael Brown had 11 points, one rebound, three assists and three steals. Blake Sham-berger had 10 points, five rebounds, five assists and a steal. Cody Ridler, Mason Wakely and Zach Lemar had six points each. Cody added a rebound, an assist and three steals. Mason added five re-bounds and an assist. Zach added four rebounds, six as-sists and five steals. Bran-don Saxton had five points, two rebounds and an assist. Josh Schafer, Nick Christian and Marc Rosenbohm had two points each. Josh and Marc also had a rebound apiece and Nick had four re-bounds and two steals. Aric Gazaway had four rebounds, an assist and four steals.

The Lady Trojans finished their season with an overall record of 0-21 and were 0-7 in the conference.

The Trojans finished regu-lar season play with a 14-11 record overall and a 3-4 re-cord in the conference.

Trojan Zach Lemar- Snatched this bucket over the CFX defender in the Tro-jans game against the CFX Hornets on February 24.

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Dental Health Month

February is Children’s Dental Health Month. This month, school nurse Susan Lentz, provided dental edu-cation for students in Mound City, Craig and South Holt in grades preschool through sixth grade.

Second grade students participated in the Missouri Dental Association coloring contest. Students were to draw posters illustrating the theme, “Remember to Brush and Floss Every Day”.

The first place posters from each of the schools list-ed below have been sent to compete at the state level. Class winners were: Skyler Hufford, Craig R-III; Sianna Meadow, Mound City; and Chenoa Hunziger, South Holt.

Additionally, Northwest Health Dental Services will provide dental screenings for students at Mound City on March 9 and at Craig on March 23. Registered Dental Hygienist, Ms. Bertie Cron-baugh, will be conducting the screenings.

Craig-III staff renews certifications

The Craig R-III staff spent their February 10 in-service time in class to renew their certification for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillators (AED).

Twenty-one staff members took the American Heart As-sociation Heart Saver CPR Course and are now certified for two years in Adult/Child CPR and use of Automated External Defibrillators.

Instructors for the course were Susan Lentz, John Morri-son and Brynda Howell, all of the Atchison-Holt Ambulance District.

The Mound City 5th grade boys- Took third place in the Tarkio Elementary Basket-ball Tournament on Saturday, February 27, in Tarkio, MO. Members of the team from left to right, front row, are: Tucker Schwebach, Sean Shephard and Austin Acton. Back row: Coach Jeff Holstine, Blake Shifflett, Riley Holstine and Ben Shifflett.

The Mound City 6th grade girls- Took first place in the West Nodaway Tournament in Burlington Junction on Sat-urday, February 20. Members of the team include, left to right, front row: Emily Wedlock, Mae Sanders, Hillary Rus-sell and Kendey Eaton. Back row: Coach Ken Eaton, Mon-tana Kunkel, Kenzie Ashford, Jessica Johnson and Tasha Ritchie.

South Holt finishes seasonThe South Holt Knights

hosted the West Nodaway Rockets in South Holt’s last home game of the season on Tuesday, February 23.

The Lady Knights showed strong offensively in their game against the Lady Rock-ets. With eight Lady Knights scoring, they secured a 51-41 win over the Lady Rock-ets.

Toshia Jones led the surge with 14 points, 12 rebounds, two assists and six steals. Blair Million and Cami Scroggins each added 13 points. Blair also had three rebounds, an assist and a steal. Cami added four re-bounds, five assists and three steals. Alex Ripley had three points, four rebounds, an assist and a steal. Darien Fouts had two points and two rebounds. Rilee Eaton had two points and four re-bounds. Chelsea Acton had two points, two rebounds and an assist. Darian Kurtz had two points.

The Knights put out a com-manding 19-7 performance in the first quarter, while the remainder of the game was played on a more even scor-ing level. The 31-21 halftime lead was carried over for a 67-56 South Holt win.

Cameron Radley had 18 points, Tyler Costello had 15 points, Keiffer Buckles had 14 points, Toby Prussman

had 13 points and Coldin Noellsch had seven points.

The Knights were hosted by the Indians in Tarkio on Friday, February 26.

The Lady Knights tacked up 10 points in the first quarter, but trailed 16-28 at the end of the half.

The Lady Indians came out strong in the third quarter outscoring the Lady Knights 25-11. The Lady Knights fin-ished with a 40-64 loss.

Cami Scroggins and Toshia Jones led the Lady Knights with nine points each. Cami had two rebounds, six as-sist and two steals. Toshia had 10 rebounds and three steals. Darian Kurtz had eight points, three rebounds and a steal. Chelsea Acton and Blaire Million had six points each. Chelsea added four rebounds, an assist and a steal. Blaire added a rebound and three assists. Alex Ripley had two points, a rebound and two assists.

The Lady Knights finished their season with an overall record of 11-13 and 4-3 in the conference.

The South Holt boys lagged behind Tarkio in the first quarter 7-16. The Knights outscored the Indians in the next two quarters to sit at a 34-34 tie at the end of three quarters.

A 16-point fourth quarter by each team had to be fin-

Looking for an opening- Alex Ripley prepared to pass in South Holt’s game against the Lady Indians at Tarkio on Friday, February 26.

Darien Fouts- Does a cross-over to avoid the Tarkio de-fender in the Lady Knights’ game against Tarkio on Fri-day, February 26. The Lady Knights finished regular season play at 11-13.

With a firm grasp on the ball- Lady Knights’ Toshia Jones went up for a layup in the game at Tarkio on Friday, February 26. Toshia had nine points in the Lady Knights’ 40-64 loss to the Lady Indians.

ished in overtime. The In-dians prevailed 6-3 in over-time to grasp the 56-53 win over the Knights.

Cameron Radley had 16 points, Keiffer Buckles had 14 points, Tyler Costello had 9 points, Coldin Noellsch had seven points, Toby Prussman had four points and Kylynn Sisk had three points.

The Knights finished their season 19-5 overall and 4-3 in the conference.

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Connecting on this jump-shot- Nate Hinrichs added two points for the CFX Hor-nets in their 52-49 win over the Trojans on February 24.

Hornet Jordan Show-alter- Finished this layup with two points for the Hor-nets in their conference win over the Trojans in Graham on February 24.

The CFX Hornets con-cluded their regular season by winning all three contests last week and claimed the Highway 275 Conference Ti-tle in the process. The Hor-nets defeated DeKalb 80-52, Nodaway-Holt 52-49, and Mound City 55-51. The victo-ries pushed the Hornets' re-cord to 22-3 overall and 7-0 in conference action.

It is the first boys’ bas-ketball conference title in 33 years at Craig and in 15 years at Fairfax.

In one of their most im-pressive outings of the sea-son, the CFX Hornets trav-elled Tuesday, February 23, to DeKalb and came home with an 80-52 win against a talented Tiger squad.

CFX trailed early in the contest, falling behind 6-0 on three quick baskets by DeKa-lb. Kevin Dodson then hit a pair of three point field goals and Spencer Barnes hit for four points to give the Hor-nets a slim 13-10 lead at the end of one period of play.

CFX removed its press in the second quarter and the Tigers would struggle to score the rest of the game against CFX's man to man defense. Controlling the de-fensive boards, the Hornets were able to score on numer-ous fast break opportunities. Led by Jacob Beck's 9 points and Jordan Showalter's 6, CFX finished the quarter on a 16-6 run and led 37-22 at intermission.

The lead grew to 24 points in the third quarter as CFX solved the DeKalb press for easy layup opportunities. The Tigers scored the last five points of the period to close at 56-39 entering the final period of play.

It would not be enough, however, as the Hornets ex-ploded for 24 fourth quarter

points to put the game out of reach.

CFX had a balanced scor-ing attack led by Kevin Dod-son with 19, Spencer Barnes and Jordan Showalter with 18 apiece, Jacob Beck 11, Jordan Sipes 6, Graham Scarbrough 3, Alex Rowland 3, and Nathan Hinrichs 2.

Playing their second game on the road in as many nights, the Hornets had just enough to get past a determined Nodaway-Holt team by a score of 52-49 on Wednesday.

The host Trojans were a step quicker at the outset of the game and took an early lead that prevailed through-out the 17-14 first quarter.

The Hornet defense, how-ever, would stiffen in the second quarter, limiting the Trojans to just four points in the frame. Meanwhile, Na-than Hinrichs connected on two three-point field goals and CFX was able to take a 24-21 lead into the locker room at the break.

Turnovers and poor shoot-ing would plague the Hor-nets in the second half. Although Kevin Dodson tal-lied 8 third quarter points, Nodaway-Holt was able to reclaim the lead behind the scoring of Zach Lemar and Brandon Saxton. Each play-er connected for five points in the period and the Trojans led by one at the end of three quarters of play at 37-36.

The Hornets quickly re-claimed the lead and led 50-42 with just over four minutes to play. Tightening their defense and forcing nu-merous turnovers, Nodaway-Holt then mounted a gutsy comeback and pulled to with-in one point at 50-49 with half a minute left to play. Ja-cob Beck hit two clutch free throws with 9 seconds left

to give the Hornets a three point lead. The Trojans were then unable to hit on a three point attempt, resulting in the 52-49 final score.

Scoring for CFX was Kev-in Dodson with 15, Spencer Barnes with 12, Jacob Beck with 11, Graham Scarbrough and Nathan Hinrichs with six each and Jordan Showal-ter with two.

It was Senior Night at the Fairfax gymnasium on Friday, February 26, as CFX hosted the visiting Mound City Panthers.

The visiting Panthers took a 17-13 first quarter lead behind Lucas Schawang's 9 first quarter points. CFX had trouble connecting on many field goal attempts as the Mound City defense allowed few second chance opportu-nities.

The Hornet defense would improve in the second quar-ter. Although the Hornets still struggled to score, they were able to limit the Pan-thers to just 6 second period points and trailed by just one point at the break at 23-22.

The second half would prove to be a nailbiter as the lead switched from side to side. The Hornets took their first lead in the game mid-way in the third quarter but found themselves still down by one at the end of the pe-riod, 42-41.

Mound City pushed its lead to six and had possession of the ball when CFX would mount its final rally. Forcing a turnover, the Hornets' Ja-cob Beck scored a field goal to pull the team within four. Jordan Sipes then connected on a basket to cut the CFX deficit to just two points with two minutes left to play. Fol-lowing a missed Panther shot, Kevin Dodson connect-ed on one of two free throw

Hornets notch 3 wins to finish regular seasonCFX Hornets claim 275 Conference title

shots to close the gap to just one. An ensuing Mound City turnover gave the ball back to CFX. Kevin Dodson was fouled and connected on both free throws for a one point Hornet lead. Graham Scar-brough would then hit a big three point field goal to push the lead to 52-48. Mound City's Lucas Schawang con-verted a three point play to pull the Panthers to within one point at 52-51. Follow-ing a Hornet miss, the Pan-thers called timeout with 12 seconds left. The Hornets' full court press forced two crucial turnovers in the fi-nal seconds of play and they were able to finish the game by connecting on free throws for the final 55-51 score.

Scoring for the Hornets was Kevin Dodson with 14, Jordan Showalter, Nathan Hinrichs and Garrett Hin-richs with eight each, Spen-cer Barnes with seven, Ja-cob Beck with five, Graham Scarbrough with three and Jordan Sipes with two.

"It was a tough and excit-ing week. We played some of our best basketball of the season at DeKalb early in the week,” Coach Petersen stated. “Both Nodaway-Holt and Mound City played great games and we were fortunate to emerge with wins. I liked the way our team did not wilt under pressure in those last two contests. Hopefully, the experience of tight games against good teams will help us in the upcoming District 16 Basketball Tournament.”

“I'm extremely proud of our team for its performance this season. The conference championship is a nice ac-complishment and if we con-tinue to play good defense we have a chance of doing some-thing in the post season."

With a nice shot from the baseline- Garrett Hinrichs connected for a three in the Hornets’ game against the Mound City Panthers. Gar-rett scored eight in the win.

Mound City’s tornado drill set for March 9

March is Severe Spring Weather Preparedness Month in MissouriMarch is Severe Spring

Weather Preparedness Month in Missouri because the weather transitions from snow to rain, tornadoes and flooding. The National Weather Service, the State Emergency Management Agency and local emergen-cy management offices will conduct the 36th annual state tornado drill at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 9. The weather service will initi-ate the drill. If Missouri is experiencing statewide se-vere weather conditions, the drill will be moved to Thurs-day, March 11, at 1:30 p.m. Mound City is plannng on participating.

“The state tornado drill reminds citizens, schools and businesses to practice taking shelter when a tor-nado warning is issued. Last May, 38 Missouri counties were included in a federal disaster declaration for se-vere weather and tornadoes. Those storms were respon-sible for seven fatalities and 21 serious injuries,” said State Emergency Manage-ment Agency Director Paul D. Parmenter.

He noted that a May 2008 tornado was responsible for 16 fatalities and more than 200 injuries in Newton, Jas-per and Barry counties. An April 2006 tornado destroyed and heavily damaged struc-

tures in Caruthersville, Braggadocio and Deering in Pemiscot County.

The entire drill can be com-pleted in 15 minutes. Once Missourians hear broadcast drill messages or outdoor warning sirens, they should practice seeking shelter. The safest shelter location is an interior room without win-dows in the lowest level of the building. Other school or business safe locations are basements, hallways, under staircases and designated tornado safe rooms. Once ev-eryone is accounted for, the drill is over.

Remember:· Tornado watch means

watch the sky. A tornado may form during a thunder-storm.

· Tornado warning means seek shelter immediately.

· An interior room without windows on the lowest floor is the safest shelter loca-tion.

· Do not seek shelter in a cafeteria, gymnasium or oth-er large open room because the roof might collapse.

· Immediately leave a mo-bile home to seek shelter in a nearby building.

· Overpasses are not safe. An overpass’ under-the-girder-type construction can cause a dangerous wind tun-nel effect.

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should stop and take shelter in a nearby building.

· If you are driving in a rural area, seek shelter in a roadside ditch. Protect yourself from flying debris by covering your head with your arms, a coat or a blan-ket. Be prepared to move quickly in case the ditch fills with water

· Never drive into standing water. It can take less than six inches of fast moving water to make a slow mov-ing car float. Once floating, a vehicle can overturn and sink.

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March 1-6 - Mound City basketball (Varsity only) at District Tournament at N. Andrew - TBAMarch 8 - Mound City Public Library Board meeting - 5 p.m.March 9 - Pre-reader Story Time at the Mound City Public Library - 10 - 10:30 a.m.March 9 - Ask a Doc Health Forum at the First Christian Church - 11:30 a.m.March 9 - Omega Club meeting - 7:30 p.m.March 9 - Sectional basketball at NWMSU (Maryville, MO) - Girls at 6 p.m. - Boys at 7:45 p.m.March 11 - End of 3rd Quarter at Mound City R-IIMarch 13 - Quarterfinal basketball at MWSU (St. Joseph, MO) Girls at 1 p.m. - Boys at 2:45 p.m.March 15-16 - 275 Conference Academic Bowl at CraigMarch 16 - Pre-reader Story Time at the Mound City Public Library - 10 - 10:30 a.m.March 17 - Mound City R-II dismisses at 12:30 p.m. and no school March 18-19 - March MadnessMarch 21 - HCHS ‘A Look Back at Mound City History’ at the Christian Fellowship ChurchMarch 23 - 275 Conference Spelling Bee at Craig - 4 p.m.March 24 - Mound City R-II dismisses at 12:30 p.m. - In-ServiceMarch 26-27 - Mound City Middle School play “That’ll Learn Ya!” performances at the State Theater

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Final 275 Conference standings

Rank Team Overall ConferenceGIRLS1 Rock Port 13-10 6-1 2 Mound City 17-7 5-2 3 Tie Tarkio 13-10 4-3 3 Tie South Holt 11-13 4-3 3 Tie West Nod. 10-11 4-3 6 CFX 11-14 3-4 7 North Nod. 8-16 2-58 Nodaway-Holt 0-21 0-7

BOYS1 CFX 22-3 7-0 2 Tarkio 13-9 5-2 3 Tie South Holt 19-5 4-3 3 Tie Mound City 14-10 4-3 3 Tie Rock Port 11-13 4-36 Nodaway-Holt 14-11 3-4 7 North Nod. 6-16 1-68 West Nod. 2-17 0-7

Mound City beats StewartsvilleThe Mound City Panthers

started their final regular season week on Tuesday, February 23, by travelling to Stewartsville. Both teams came home with wins.

The Lady Panthers were slow getting started, but had a 13-10 lead over the Lady Cardinals at the end of the first quarter. The Lady Panthers picked up their game defensively and held the Lady Cardinals to only three points in the second quarter, establishing a 26-13 halftime lead, behind 10 of Morgan Burge’s first half points.

The Lady Panthers scored 22 points in the third quar-ter to take a 48-16 lead. With all players seeing ac-tion in the second half, the Lady Panthers finished with a 54-20 win.

Morgan Burge led the Lady Panthers with 12

points, 10 rebounds and an assist. Emilee Messer had 10 points, four rebounds, an assist and four steals. Abby Haer had eight points, four rebounds and five steals. Tay-lor Miles had six points, two rebounds, two assists and two steals. Whisper Parrish had six points, 12 rebounds and three steals. Haylee Clifton had five points, a re-bound and an assist. Jordyn Pankau had four points and two rebounds. Tori Ingram had three points, three re-bounds, four assists and three steals. Loni Weber had two rebounds and two steals. Alex Phillips had two rebounds and Josie Bomar had a rebound and a steal.

In the boys’ contest, Mound City was led to a 15-11 first quarter start, behind 10 of Gage Rosiers’ points. With less scoring, the Panthers were still able to extend their

Panthers face Blue JaysThe Mound City Panthers

were hosted by the Rock Port Blue Jays on Thursday, Feb-ruary 25, in a makeup game from Friday, February 19.

A junior varsity boys’ game began the evening, as the Panthers started with a 14-6 first quarter lead. They had a tough time scoring in the second quarter, but maintained a 19-12 lead at the half.

Another lively half fol-lowed after the break, as the Panthers outscored the Blue Jays 10-7 in the third quar-ter. They went on to win, 31-28.

Ben Luna had seven points. Hayston Wilson and James Walker had six points each. Jeff Atkins had four points. Scoring two points each were Brett Johnson, Spencer Staples, Jake Reilly and Kase Newcomb.

In the girls’ contest, the Lady Panthers started off in high form behind 12 of Abby Haer’s first half points. They led 15-10 in the first quarter and 22-21 at the break.

The Lady Panthers lagged behind in the third quarter as Makayla Vette and Alli-son Lawrence both drained a three to start the period for the Lady Blue Jays, who outscored the Lady Panthers 13-6 in the third frame. Making 11 of 15 free throws in the final quarter, the Lady Blue Jays outscored the Lady Panthers and won, 49-38.

Abby Haer led the Lady Panthers with 19 points, three rebounds, an assist and four steals. Tori Ingram had six points, six rebounds, four assists and nine steals. Whisper Parrish had six points and three rebounds. Emilee Messer had five points, eight rebounds, an assist and two steals. Tay-lor Miles had two points, six rebounds, an assist and a steal. Loni Weber had three steals and Morgan Burge had three rebounds.

The Panthers came out hot and had the Blue Jays down 18-8 in the first quarter. With 26 first half points from Dan Montgomery, Lucas Scha-

Panthers split with CFXThe Mound City Panthers

travelled to Fairfax on Fri-day, February 26, to play their final regular season game with the CFX Bulldogs and Hornets.

The Lady Panthers and Lady Bulldogs were slow in getting any offense going in the first period, but the Lady Panthers ended the quarter with an 8-4 lead. With a large number of turnovers from both teams, the score at half showed the Lady Panthers to be up 17-10.

The second half proved better offensively for the Lady Panthers and their man-to-man defense helped extend their lead to 30-18 in the third quarter. The Lady Panthers went on to win, 44-24.

Whisper Parrish had 11 points and four rebounds. Tori Ingram had seven points, six rebounds, two as-sists and two steals. Abby Haer had seven points, two rebounds and five assists. Morgan Burge had five points and six rebounds. Tay-lor Miles had four points, a rebound and an assist. Loni Weber had four points, a re-bound and four steals. Emi-

Senior Laura Schoon-over- Returned to the floor following an injury to her hand that caused her to sit out for several weeks. The senior saw some minutes in her first game back against the Lady Bulldogs on Friday, February 26.

Whisper Parrish- Made this shot in the Lady Pan-thers game against the Lady Blue Jays at Rock Port on Thursday, February 25.

lee Messer had two points, five rebounds, an assist and three steals. The Lady Pan-thers saw the return of se-nior, Laura Schoonover, who added two points and three rebounds. Haylee Clifton had two points.

The Lady Panthers fin-ished their regular season with a 17-7 record and were 5-2 in the conference.

With the Mound City Panthers playing persis-tant defense and their of-fense bolstered by nine Lu-cas Schawang first quarter points, the Panthers had a 17-13 first quarter lead.

The Hornets tightened their defense in the sec-ond quarter and held the Panthers to only six second quarter points. The teams left the floor with the Pan-thers in the lead 23-22.

At a blazing pace of 19 points apiece, the two teams started the final period with Mound City having a slight 42-41 edge.

The nailbiter continued as Mound City kicked into gear in the fourth quarter, taking a six point lead with four and a half minutes to play. The Hornets forced a

Dribbling past defend-ers- Panther James Schoon-over made an attack on the basket in the Panthers win over Rock Port on Thursday, February 25.

Mound City Panther Prent Eaton- Looked to his team-mates for the assist. The Panthers beat the Rock Port Blue Jays 76-59 in Rock Port on Thursday, February 25.

Lady Panther Emilee Messer- Added two points to the score in the Lady Panthers 44-24 win over the CFX Bulldogs on Friday, February 26.

A strong jumpshot- Earned Tori Ingram two more points in the Lady Panthers win over the CFX Bulldogs. Tori had seven points in the win.

lead to 26-18 by the half. A scoring drought in the

third quarter gave the Car-dinals an opportunity to close the gap to two points. The Panthers began pulling away in the fourth quarter and went on to win 49-38.

Gage Rosier led the Pan-thers with 16 points, eight rebounds, two assists and two steals. James Schoon-over had 10 points, a re-bound, three assists and four steals. Lucas Scha-wang had 10 points, three rebounds, four assists and five steals. Dan Montgomery had seven points and three rebounds. Ryan Crowley had two points, three rebounds and a steal. Prent Eaton had two points, two rebounds, an assist and a steal. Josh Ow-ens had two points, two re-bounds, two assists and two steals.

wang and Gage Rosier, the Panthers held a 35-26 lead going into the break.

The Panthers exercised good hustle and extended their lead to 58-42 at the end of three periods. Gage Rosier added to the Blue Jays defi-cit by connecting on 15 of 16 second half free throws. The Panthers went on to seal the conference win, 76-59.

Gage Rosier led the Pan-thers with 31 points, three rebounds and four assists. Dan Montgomery added 17 points, 11 rebounds, an assist and a steal. Lucas Schawang had 13 points, three rebounds, three as-sists and three steals. James Schoonover had four points, seven rebounds, five assists and two steals. Josh Owens had four points and two re-bounds. Prent Eaton had three points and a steal.Ryan Crowley had three points, three rebounds, an assist and two steals. Miles Jumps had a point and a re-bound.

Panther turnover and add-ed seven points in the next two minutes to take a one point lead with two and a half minutes on the clock. A three by Hornet Graham Scarbrough pushed the Hor-nets before Mound City’s Lucas Schawang converted a three point play to bring the Panthers back to within one. The Hornet press forced turnovers and in the end the Panthers fell, 55-51.

Lucas Schawang led the Panthers with 21 points, eight rebounds and two as-sists. Dan Montgomery had 10 points and five rebounds. Gage Rosier had six points, three rebounds, six assists and a steal. James Schoon-over had six points, five re-bounds, two assists and a steal. Ryan Crowley had two points, an assist and a steal. Prent Eaton had two points and four rebounds. Miles Jumps had two points, a re-bound and an assist. Josh Owens had two points and three rebounds.

The Panthers finished their regular season with a 14-10 record and were 4-3 in the conference.

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On February 2, 2010, the last will of the decedent having been admitted to probate, the following individual was appointed personal representative of the estate of DONALD L. GRIFFITH, decedent, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Holt County, Missouri. The name, business address and phone number of the personal representative are:

DIANE M. LINHART, 8404 LAKEVIEW DR, OMAHA, NE 68127.The personal representative’s attorney’s name, business address and

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The City of Mound City will accept sealed bids until 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 11, 2010, for mowing and trimming three City Parks for the 2010 season with options to extend for two more years. Bids should include all equipment, labor, material, sup-plies and expertise to complete the work. The successful bidder will be required to furnish a certificate of insurance of general liability, property damage and worker’s compensation wherein the City is named as an additional insured. For further informa-tion and park locations contact City Hall, 660-442-3447. The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive in-formalities therein, to determine which is the lowest and best bid and to select its option in awarding the contract. 34/1tc

REQUEST FOR BIDSMowing City Parks

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE For default in the payment of debt secured by a deed of trust executed by Jay Dee Reynolds and Paula R. Reyn-olds, dated September 28, 2001, and recorded on September 28, 2001, in Book No. 339, at Page 712, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Holt County, Missouri, the undersigned Successor Trustee will on March 26, 2010, at 4:30 p.m., at the North Door of the Holt County Courthouse, Oregon, Mis-souri, sell at public venue to the highest bidder for cash:

Commencing at the East Quarter corner of Section 27, Township 60 North, Range 38 West, Holt County, Mis-souri; thence North 00 degrees 06 minutes 52 seconds West 99.00 feet to the point of beginning; thence North 89 degrees 42 minutes 05 seconds West 149.63 feet to the Northerly projection of the Easterly right-of-way of Main Street in the Town of Oregon; thence along said right-of-way, North 00 degrees 03 minutes 52 seconds West 129.20 feet; thence South 89 degrees 42 minutes 04 seconds East 149.51 feet; thence South 00 degrees 06 minutes 52 seconds East 129.20 feet to the point of beginning, all in Holt County, Missouri. Subject to all public and private roads and easements, commonly known as 402 N. Main, Oregon, MO, 64473

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Mound City Board of Aldermen minutesThese minutes are unofficial until approved at the next board meeting

Alderman Stan Seitz called the Mound City Board of Al-dermen meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, Febru-ary 22, with Jim Krueger, Stan Seitz and Bob Heck present. Alderman Nauman joined the meeting shortly thereafter.

Pre-bid Meeting: Siren Project – Alderman Seitz first questioned the proto-col for activating the warn-ing sirens. Fire Chief J.R. Rother said the most com-mon practice is to sound the alarm for three minutes fol-lowed by ten minutes of si-lence and then repeat until the danger has passed. The siren is generally activated when a tornado warning is issued, not necessarily when one is spotted.

The pre-bid meeting was called in order to hear rec-ommendations from siren vendors for coverage and equipment options. An omni-

City council holds special meeting to discuss siren project

directional siren is the most common used siren which emits sound 360 degrees. Mound City’s Thunderbolt siren on Nebraska Street is a rotating directional style. Most units have 30-minute battery backups, some are expandable, some have voice messaging capabilities, ei-ther with a pre-recorded message or through a micro-phone, and some have solar powered batteries.

KCP&L has offered to pro-vide 45’ Class 3 poles, but all vendors recommended 50’ Class 2 poles which are bet-ter quality. The selected ven-dor will recommend where to place the sirens but that decision is ultimately up to the Council.

Steve Cearlock, Outdoor Warning Consulting LLC, recommended three 4-cell omni-directional sirens to provide coverage or two 6-cell sirens which are ex-

pandable. He also discussed a voice messaging option.

Bruce Fisher, Blue Val-ley Public Safety, offered to bring a truck-mounted siren to town in order to gather information on proper place-ment, spacing and range. He had proposed a Federal Sig-nal 2001-130 rotating direc-tional siren when the coun-cil was first looking at only replacing the siren at City Hall Park (with the USDA grant), but he can provide any style. Both of the city’s current sirens were manu-factured by Federal Signal and have been virtually maintenance free.

Fred Engelbrecht, Storm Sirens Inc., recommended two Sentry Siren 16V1T-B omni-directional sirens which he says are mainte-nance free except for the battery. He also discussed adding their Storm Sen-try option which monitors for weather advisories and can send out text messages, emails and phone calls, as well as activate the siren.

Monica Bailey, NW MO Regional Council, asked the Council to consider what it wants to include in the siren bid specifications. Most were inclined to go with the omni-directional type siren and felt the upgrades for voice, text, solar and extra remote activation should be done as options. Mr. Fisher was asked to schedule the truck-mounted siren to do testing in town. Council members agreed to wait before declin-ing the USDA grant which was for 55% funding of one siren. This FEMA/SEMA grant is for 75% funding of 2-3 sirens.

Annexation/Sewer Ser-vice West Of I-29 – Alder-man Seitz stated a decision on what properties to annex has to be made fairly quickly if the Council wants to have it on the ballot this year. Al-derman Nauman was not in favor of annexing prop-

erty south of town but felt the area west of town would generate some income.

Alderman Seitz and Clerk Patsy Smith have been put-ting together information to submit to Congressman Sam Graves for possible funding of sewer service west of I-29. Snyder & Associates is also doing more research for cost estimates that are needed for any funding applications. Seitz felt residents should be encouraged to accurately fill out their census forms. Census information is used by federal and state agen-cies in awarding funding for city projects.

Appointment: Planning Commission – Tabled until the Council can consider po-tential candidates to serve on the Commission.

Banner Brackets – Council reviewed a quote of $1,136 to build sixteen brackets for the banners being provided by Squaw Creek Wildlife Refuge. Alderman Nauman will ask if the Kiwanis will contribute to the cost.

Delinquent Merchant Li-censes – A few businesses have neglected to obtain their merchant licenses. Council members agreed to wait until the March meet-ing before taking further ac-tion on enforcement.

Sesquicentennial Funds – Wava Duncan contacted the Clerk to report that Mayor Duncan’s intent was to do-nate the remaining funds in the Sesquicentennial ac-count to local non-profits such as the museum, theater and library.

Misc. – Park Mowing: Council members discussed requesting bids for mowing of city parks including how often or at what height they should be mowed and offer-ing a 3-year contract.

Adjournment – Alderman Heck moved to adjourn the meeting at 5:50 p.m., Krue-ger seconded. Approved unanimously.

Northwest Missouri area corn growers met with Sen. Brad Lager during a visit to the Capitol this past week. While in Jefferson City for board meetings, members of the Missouri Corn Growers’ Association met with legislators to discuss issues affecting agriculture across the state. Pic-tured above, left to right, are Sam Creed of Fairfax, Gene Millard of St. Joseph, Kevin Hurst of Tarkio, Sen. Brad La-ger and Morris Heitman of Mound City.

Local students participate in legislative shadowing project

Pictured above- Is Tiffany Kunkel (left) of Mound City High School who job shadowed Representative Thomson on February 24.

Area corn growers visit Capitol

Sarah Kahle and Tiffany Kunkel, students at Mound City High School, partici-pated in the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Legisla-tive Shadowing Project on February 23 and 24 in Jef-ferson City.

Tuesday afternoon the students toured the Gov-ernor’s mansion and the capitol building. That eve-ning the students attended a banquet at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in their honor. Representative Mike Lair spoke to the students about their opportunities in life and encouraged them to get involved in political decision-making. Repre-sentative Lair is a former teacher and coach.

On Wednesday, the stu-dents spent most of the day shadowing their assigned legislators to see politics in action. By participating in this project, Sarah and Tif-fany have developed a bet-ter understanding of the political process and its im-pact on Missouri families.

Sarah Kahle, daughter of Paul and Linda Kahle, spent the day with Rep-resentative Will Kraus of Lee’s Summit and Tiffany Kunkel, daughter of Mark and Kristy Kunkel, spent her day with Representa-tive Mike Thompson from Maryville. Both legislators were very gracious hosts to the students and allowed them to accompany them on a variety of tasks and meetings throughout the day. Sarah and Tiffany were allowed to observe budget and health com-mittee meetings. Sarah was able to observe Repre-sentative Kraus as he met with constituents. Tiffany was able to participate in

budget meetings involving school funding.

“This was a great experi-ence and I encourage next year’s juniors and seniors to participate in this pro-gram,” says Sarah.

Tiffany said, “It was a wonderful opportunity to learn how our government works and I would highly recommend this program to other students.”

Sarah and Tiffany were just two of fifty FCCLA members from across Mis-souri chosen to participate in this project. Approxi-mately 90 FCCLA mem-bers applied for this honor and Mound City was privi-leged to have two members selected.

Missouri FCCLA spon-sors the activity to give its members the opportunity to expand their capabili-ties in understanding and interpreting public policy focusing on family, work and social issues related to building strong commu-nities. FCCLA is the only in-school student organiza-tion with the family as its central focus. Participa-tion in activities such as the Legislative Shadow-ing Project help members become strong leaders in their families, careers and communities.

Their chapter adviser, Karlene Harrison, and student teacher, Tenique Hays, accompanied the two students on the trip. Mrs. Harrison is the Family and Consumer Sciences teach-er at Mound City High School, and Mrs. Hays at-tends Northwest Missouri State University and will graduate on May 1 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Family and Consumer Sciences.

The Agricultural Re-search Service along with University of Missouri re-searchers have been work-ing on using sensors to measure the light reflected from corn as it is growing in the field to determine the amount of nitrogen to apply since 2004. This re-search is focused on apply-ing nitrogen only where it is needed in the field. The corn plants’ early season color is the best indicator of nitrogen needs.

There are a number of sensors that are commer-cially available for use in crop production. The two most popular brands are NTech’s GreenSeeker which uses a red sensor and Hol-land Scientifics’ Crop Circle which is an amber sensor. Each of these instruments uses their own light energy.

These devices can be mounted to a tractor or ap-plicator and then as the equipment passes through the field, the sensors mea-

sure on the go and this in-formation is used to change application rates of nitro-gen products.

The University of Mis-souri and Ag Research Ser-vice of USDA have worked together to develop algo-rithm which is used to in-terpret the sensed data and use this information to determine the amount of nitrogen that should be ap-plied to the growing crop. The calculated fertilizer rate is sent to the variable rate controller and then the recommended nitrogen rate is applied to the grow-ing crop. This process is re-peated every second which allows the grower to apply the precise amount of ni-trogen as required by the crop.

For more information, contact Wayne Flanary at 660-446-3724 or Heather Benedict at 660-425-6434, Regional Agronomists, Uni-versity of Missouri Exten-sion.

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After review, Commissioner Gordon made a motion to ac-cept the minutes as written by County Clerk Kathy J. Kunkel. The motion passed unanimously.

Bill Metzgar, rural Mound City; Phil Schrick, McDon-ald & Warger, Liberty; Rick Kingery, MoDOT; and Road and Bridge Supervisor Daryl Biermann met with the com-missioners to discuss BRO-29, a bridge replacement project on Ironwood Road, north of Mound City. Mr. Metzgar is one of four landowners at the project site. Mr. Schrick is the county’s engineer for the proj-ect, and Mr. Kingery serves as MoDOT liaison. Mr. Metzgar has several times since 2007 expressed his unwillingness to allow the project to go for-ward and has refused to allow an easement on his property. He told the commissioners that he will sign the ease-ment and allow the project to proceed if they will either place $1,000 in escrow until the project is completed to his specifications, or provide a performance bond in the sum of $1,000 to be released at the completion of the project; or the county can purchase the property needed for the easement. The commission-ers declined to purchase the property. Discussion was held on the options. The commis-sioners agreed to look into the performance bond and a third-party appraiser to de-termine the condition of the property prior and following construction. Mr. Schrick and Mr. Biermann agreed to flag the current right-of-way and necessary easement needed for the project so that all par-ties can determine visually what land exactly is impacted by the construction. Project engineering showed that .11 acres are needed for right-of-way and .06 acres are needed for a temporary easement. Commissioner Sitherwood stated that the project will go forward.

The commissioners reviewed final invoices and documents for BRO-30, which was com-pleted in 2009 on Raintree Drive. The commissioners also reviewed plans for BRO-31 on Holt 130, commonly known as the Powell Ranch. That proj-ect is slated for construction in two years, if federal funds are made available.

Commissioners Sitherwood signed a letter requesting payment from the Missouri Department of Conservation for $10,131.52 as reimburse-ment through a cost-share program for County Aid Road Trust rock on county roads that directly access Conserva-tion Areas.

Sheriff Scott Wedlock joined the commission to discuss a generator grant project for the 911 system and the po-tential moving of the Proba-tion and Parole office from the Sherriff ’s building to the courthouse.

Commissioners met with Circuit Clerk Vicki Book and Judge Bill Richards to discuss moving equipment from the Judge’s chambers on the east side of the building to make room for Probation and Pa-role.

Being no further business, Commissioner Sitherwood adjourned the meeting until Monday, February 22, 2010, at 9:00 a.m.

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sion also met Monday, Feb-ruary 22, 2010, at 9:00 a.m., with Presiding Commission-er Mark Sitherwood, First District Commissioner Bill Gordon and Second District Commissioner Don Holstine present.

Commissioner Sitherwood reported on the county’s en-rollment in the National As-sociation of Counties (NACO) prescription drug plan. Coun-ty residents are eligible to use the card which has no fee and

offers discounts on prescrip-tion drugs. The cards are tar-geted to people who otherwise do not have prescription drug coverage, or who take a medi-cation that is not covered on their plan. There is no cost to the individual or to the county for the use of the card and the card is accepted at neighbor-hood pharmacies throughout the region.

Road and Bridge Supervi-sor Daryl Biermann met with the commission to discuss repairs and equipment prob-lems while grading snow. He also reviewed a letter from MoDOT outlining their fiscal concerns with federal fund-ing. Bridges in our area may not be replaced as scheduled do to the lack of funding.

Circuit Clerk Vicki Book and Prosecuting Attorney Bob Shepherd approached the commission to discuss the recent move of Probation and Parole to the east side of the courthouse judge’s office. They would like the office to remain in the Sheriff ’s buildings for various reasons including se-

curity and the proximity of probation and parolees sitting with juveniles at the court-house. The commissioners agreed to take up the matter with Sheriff Wedlock.

Collector Billy Paul Sharp appeared before the commis-sion to present the Annual Drop List from the tax rolls. The drop list contains persons who are deceased, have left the county, or whose taxes re-main uncollectible from 2004 at a total of $3,639.35.

Commissioner Holstine made a motion to nominate Hugh Wallace of Mound City to the Transportation Advi-sory Board. The motion is passed unanimously.

Wayne Flanary, University Extension Agronomist, joined the commission to present the annual report of the Graves-Chapple Farm and the Uni-versity Extension Office. Commissioners reviewed the reports. In another matter, the commissioners discussed the need for a sidewalk on the south side of the annex build-ing property and landscaping

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with the commissioners to discuss Probation and Parole. His main concerns for main-taining the office in the Sher-iff ’s building is that the build-ing is attached to the jail and children may not be in the jail. Probation and Parole per-sons have been bringing their children to appointed visits. There is no seating for per-sons waiting. There are times when the restroom is made unavailable to employees for required drug testing.

Judge Bill Richards joined the discussion and said he believes these issues should be solved with Probation and Parole and that the meetings should remain in the Sheriff ’s building. Commissioner Sith-erwood agreed to call Tom Sei-pel, Director of Probation and Parole, and set up a meeting.

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By Sarah Kahle 1953- Board of Education members included Russell Stroud- President, Paul Crouse- Vice-President, S. P. Allen- Secretary, and members Lawrence Marrs, Wilson Lawrence and Fred Burks 1972- Homecoming King and Queen- David Wright and Vicky Matthews 1996- 8th grade officers were President- Breanna Noland, Vice president- Lindsay Brown, Secretary- Nicole Salfrank, Treasurer- Zeke Hughes and Barnwarming King and Queen were John Stedman and Pam Collins

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By James Schoonover On March 8, 2010, at 11:00 a.m., Missouri State Repre-sentative - District 4, Mike Thompson, will be visiting the fourth grade class. He will be explaining to the students the responsibility of being a citizen. He will also explain the different types of committees he is involved in. The stu-dents have currently been learning about Missouri history in class. Mr. Thompson will also take the students through the process of passing a bill. The session will be wrapped up by the students asking him any questions they might have on Missouri legislation.

Mike Thompson plans to visit fourth grade

By Prent Eaton Future Farmers of America is an organiza-tion to engage students in agricultural education programs. FFA week is a tradition across the nation. Last week was FFA week at Mound City. The FFA members participated in many activities throughout the week. Each day of the week was a dress up day: Monday was Hats, Shades and Ha-

FFA week celebrated at Mound City

waiian Shirt Day, Tuesday was Farmer Day, Wednes-day was Camo/Tractor Day, Thursday was FFA Spirit Day and Friday was Sports’ Day. The FFA mem-bers hosted an appreciation breakfast for all the Mound City staff and farmers. The breakfast was a success with many people attend-ing. The students also went to the nursing home to play bingo with the residents.

Blast from the past

By Ryan Crowley The word of the month is cooperation. The definition of cooperation is an act or instance of working together for a common purpose or benefit (www.dictionary.com). Coop-eration means to be very patient and caring towards other people.

Word of the month-Cooperation

By Tiffany KunkelTwo students were selected

to attend the Missouri FC-CLA legislative shadowing program in Jefferson City. Sarah Kahle and Tiffany Kunkel were chosen to at-tend out of the 87 students who applied for a position.

Tiffany Kunkel was select-ed to shadow Representative Mike Thompson and Sarah Kahle was chosen to shadow Representative Will Kraus.

Students attend legislative shadowing

While shadowing Mike Thompson, Tiffany was able to listen in on a budget meet-ing for school funding. Sarah got the opportunity to listen in on a committee meeting with Will Kraus.

After a long day of shad-owing, the students met to discuss their day with their representative or senator and then they were free to go home.

By Jessica GillenwaterQuestion: What are your plans for

March Madness break? Justyn Hall, Grade Three- “If I get a four wheeler, I plan on riding it.” Riley Holstine, Grade Five- “I will have friends over, shoot baskets, play football, play with my brother, and go camp-ing.” Jessica Johnson, Grade Six- “Hang out with friends.” Kyler Miles, Grade Six- “My plans are to go down to state basketball and watch Mound City WIN!” Taylor Coker, Grade Seven- “Stay home and watch college basketball.” Lily Grant, Grade Eight- “I might fly to Florida to visit my great-grandma who’s 94! If not, I’ll just hang out with friends and enjoy the break!” Patrick Hurst, Grade Nine- “Watch the NCAA Men’s Bas-ketball tournament and hang out with my friends. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!!” Tori Ingram, Grade Ten- “I plan on going to Columbia and watching the state basketball Final Four.”

Panther question of the week

By Taylor BelvinsThe students that received

the “Terrific Kids” award sponsored by the Mound City Kiwanis Club for honesty were Kindergarten, Danielle VanHoutan; Mrs. Forehand’s First grade, Dominic Gard-ner; Mrs. Burge’s First grade, Keagan Shepherd; Second grade, Rhett Hall; Third grade, Wyatt Kerns; and Fourth grade, Alex Carver.

The students that were selected for the February Principal’s Lunch with Mrs. Seitz included Kindergarten, William Rother and Kishia

Elementary and middle school awards

Panning; Mrs. Forehand’s First grade, Addy Lewis; Mrs. Burge’s First grade, Conner Derr; Second grade, Sianna Meadows and Kaitie Selleck; Third grade, Victoria Nau-man and Destiny Grover; Fourth grade, Robin Wilcox-son and Jacobi Tunnell; Fifth grade, Kimberly Corbin and Riley Holstine; Sixth grade, Hillary Russell and Rebecca Wheeler; Seventh grade, Grace Newcomb and Randy Smith; and Eighth grade, Jorden Miller and Eryn Ac-ton.

Counselor’s reportcan be frustrating. There are many free scholarship search programs available. There are also lists of scholarships on www.prephq.com. Here are some of the scholarships available: The dates beside the scholarship indicate the day the scholarship is due.

---------------------------------- March 1- FCS FinancialMarine Corp. Scholarship Foundation Mutual Insurance Scholar-shipWm. & Ann Grace Founda-tion Scholarship March 6- Got Milk? March 7- Peru State Col-lege Band/Music Scholarship March 13- MFA March 15- Clodfelter Insur-anceDavid Duncan Memorial Health ScholarshipLee Russell MemorialJared Loucks Memorial Jennie Cardinell MemorialLion’s Club ScholarshipExchange Bank ScholarshipNodaway Valley Bank ScholarshipCTA ScholarshipFCCLA ScholarshipHarold Homedale MemorialMutual Ins. Local Scholar-shipKiwanis ScholarshipTa Ya Tu ScholarshipBeta Sigma PhiFarm Kids for College Schol-arshipNWMSU Everett Brown Freshman ScholarshipMCCBC Scholarship

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THANK YOU / REMEMBERING

Call The Mound City News To Place Your Ad • 660-442-5423

Buy • Sell • Trade • Rent Hire • Thank You/Remembering • Legal Services

REAL ESTATEMISCELLANEOUSGREG’S JEWELRY -

Aquamarine jewelry and March birthstones. Gold and silver crosses, angels, medal-lions and more! 34/4tc

GUN REPAIR- You break ‘em, we fix ‘em. Howard’s Gun Repair. 12315 Hwy. 59, Craig, MO, 64437. 660-683-9401. 34/4tc

HELP WANTED

THANK YOU- Thank you to everyone for the cards, phone calls and meals sent to us since my surgery. A special thank you to Bill Metzgar for helping get the kids to school when needed. Thanks,

Jennifer, Mike, Gabrielle and William Heck 34/1tc

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THANK YOU- We want to say thank you for all the love and concern you have shown for our father and grandfather. We especially thank Pastor Paul Grant for the beautiful ser-vice and music that he rendered and the delicious luncheon that was provided for our family by the ladies of the First Christian Church. Thanks to the Oregon Care Center for the excellent care provided for our dad. We thank you for the beautiful flowers and plants, the many calls, cards and food that was received. Thanks to the ambulance service for getting our dad to the hospital. We appreciate the care and concern given to our dad by Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain. A special thanks to Avery’s sisters-in-law, Evelyn Sims and Ruby Davis, and dad’s neighbors. Mound City was our Dad’s home and he enjoyed his family and his many friends. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Shirley Scarbrough and familyKaren Gilland and familyTommy Davis and family 34/1tc

THANK YOU- For all the cards, calls and visits from friends and family. A special thank you to our children; Mar-cia and Chuck, Kim and Kirby, and Jeff and Melinda and all the grandkids for a great 50th anniversary party. We had a great day, thanks so much.

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WANTING TO RENT- A house with a dock at Big Lake for a weekend or two this summer. We are a reli-able, non-smoking family just looking for a weekend get-away. Call 785-260-1179, or evenings at 785-336-6032. 34/2tp

A S K A D O C L U N -CHEON- Have a question you would like to ask your doctor? Here’s your chance! Community Hospital-Fairfax will host an “Ask a Doc” Lun-cheon on March 19, 2010, at the First Christian Church in Mound City. For details call 660-686-2211, ext. 259.

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CELEBRITY WAITER DINNER- Tickets are on sale for Community Hospital-Fairfax’s Celebrity Waiter Dinner on March 27. Call 660-686-2211, ext. 259, to reserve your ticket today!

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Good Home Cooking,

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Saturday 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. • Sunday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. 115 S. Main St. • Craig, MO • 660-683-5444

Celebrating our 2nd year!Thank you to everyone who has created our success.

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

Joan (Gresham) Elmsof Mound City, MO,

celebrates her

85th BirthdayThursday, March 11th.

She was born on that date in 1925 at Big Lake, MO.

Joan married Wayne D. Elms on December 5, 1943, and has been a lifelong resident

of the Mound City area.Joan’s children and their spouses are Debbie and Mike Summers and Robin and Greg Hall.

There are 3 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

Cards may be sent to the honoree at28555 Holt 180, Mound City, MO 64470.

ENTERPRISEREALTY

Jim Loucks, Sales AgentHome 660-442-5253Office 660-582-7160

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LAND FOR SALE

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Holt County Youth Wrestling Toy Show

Saturday, March 69 a.m. - 3 p.m.

at the T.J. Hall BuildingOregon, MO

Farm and Construction Toys

Admission - $2

Storm Spotter Class

Wednesday, March 17, 2010,

at 7:00 p.m.At the Holt County

CourthousePublic invited to attend.

FREDERICKS’CONSIGNMENT

AUCTIONEast of Falls City, NE,

on Hwy. 159Saturday, March 6

9:30 a.m.Two rings will run part of the day.

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www.fredericksauction.com or call 402-245-2233.

LARRY RUSSELL TAX SERVICEAppointments

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212 East 5th Street(2 blocks north of GM dealer)

Mound City, MOPhone: 660-442-5805

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MISSING DOG!!!

Last seen West of the Mound City Truck Plaza

Breed: WeimaranerResponds to Blue, is very friendly and is a very BIG part of the Case Family.

If found, please call 816-344-6882

or 816-341-3956

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4:30-7:00 p.m.COMMUNITY BUILDING

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MC Auto & Truck Repair

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Saturday:8 a.m. - 12 noon

TiresInterstate Batteries

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MFA OIL COMPANYPetro card pumps will be out of service from March 8 through the afternoon of

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Call for appointmentsThe Law Office of Brian Tubbs LLC

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Call Parshall Concrete at 660-442-5997

Ken Carter with 25 years of welding experience

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Jeff KarstenCell: 816-262-5933

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Commercial & Residential Concrete Work

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In Loving Memory of Jerry HuntsmanNow five years have glided by,

And after 77 years on earth,God decided Jerry should be in

His loving care .In our hearts we have many

Happy memoriesLove for him sti l l goes on.

Sadly missed by: Frances, his wife for 56 years; children, Deb-bie and friend Jim, Kay, Bill and wife Dawn, Robert and friend Vickie; granddaughter, Tenille and husband; great-grandchil-dren, Derek, Brett and Kristi; grandson, Lee and wife Kristy;

great-grandchildren, Kadence and Leyton; relatives, friends and friend of the family, Lee Douglas.

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ROCKY’S PIT STOPHwy. A in Maitland • 660-935-2317

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The Mint in Forest City, MO, owned and operated by Francis Scroggins until his un-timely death on June 6, 2009, has closed its doors for business. Francis opened The Mint in 1988. The past few months, Frances’ daughter Christie has been operating the family business.

The Mint’s name came from the building which was formerly the First State Bank of Forest City. The original building still houses the vault and bank teller stations with mar-ble tops.

A bar and dance floor were added to the back of the building. In recent years, the Whistle Stop, next door, was purchased and added for a casual dining experience.

The longtime entertainment and dining venue closed its doors on February 28.

The Mint closes its doors

“Crystal clear,” said Beth Sickel and Chuck Whitney of Southeast Nebraska Com-munications (SNC). And, the capacity of data will be “vir-tually unlimited,” Mrs. Sickel added.

Beth, the Vice-President and General Manager, and Chuck, the Marketing Di-rector at SNC, were talking about Fiber To The Home (FTTH), a huge SNC project underway in Falls City.

In all of Nebraska, Falls City will be the largest town to provide FTTH technology to all homes and businesses. That, according to Whitney, includes 2,366 homes and businesses. Only four per-cent of homes in this country are connected to FTTH tech-nology.

Of 460 cities and villages in Nebraska, only 11 have FTTH. Seven, including Falls City, are in the midst of an FTTH upgrade.

The upgrade will result in “no cost to any customer,” Beth said. “This is an inter-nal upgrade” that includes no new rates or fees. SNC customers will use the same phones, the same computers and the same electronics in their communications.

“Your bills will be the same,” Whitney said. “There is no cost to our customers.”

Ray Joy, SNC Operations Manager, said SNC custom-ers will be “touched” no more than four times during the installation process. Most of the city has been canvassed, Joy said, while many homes and businesses have had fi-ber optic cable buried and ready to be installed.

When completed, 4,116 fiber optic cables will enter the SNC Central Office, re-placing the copper cable that was installed by SNC just 25 years ago. “It was time to up-grade to the new technology,” Mrs. Sickel said.

In the early 1980s, SNC converted from aerial lines to buried cable. “Copper served us a great life,” Mrs. Sickel said, “but it was time to re-place. We could have tried to repair the copper lines, but the new fiber optic cable pro-vides a “great opportunity for Falls City.”

The economic development windows provided by fiber optic cable are enormous. “It could be a decision-maker,”

Mrs. Sickel said, for a busi-ness that relies on commu-nication. In addition, those who might work from home will find the technology fast, friendly and green.

In fact, all SNC custom-ers will benefit from the fast, friendly and green technol-ogy. Mrs. Sickel said the ca-pacity of the fiber optic cable is “350 times greater” than copper. That translates into “crystal clear” phone commu-nication, hugely expanded Internet (through SENTCO) services and “future services — we will be able to deliver all future needs,” said Mrs. Sickel. She described the major improvement as “an investment and commitment to Falls City” as the commu-nity moves forward.

Joy said the construction phase of the project will be completed by August of next year. That means all cable will be installed in the ground to every home and business in Falls City. The lines are direct, linking homes and businesses to Southeast Ne-braska Communications.

Fiber To The Home will provide incredible capability, Mrs. Sickel said. “Down the road, in 10 or 20 years, the Internet’s capacity will be 10-fold compared to today.” FTTH will “deliver all future needs,” including phone, In-ternet and future services.

According to Joy, the con-version will take place by late spring or early summer, 2011. He said each home/business will be fitted with a new “box” outside. Inter-net DSL modems will be replaced. None of these ad-ditions will be of cost to cus-tomers.

Joy said the new Com-munity Medical Center has been a priority for South-east Nebraska Communica-tions. The hospital has been equipped with fiber optic ca-ble, which will vastly expand its capabilities.

The new system, Whitney said, will provide “crystal clear voice” communications by telephone and the capabil-ity of vastly greater Internet speed. “This is a state-of-the-art system,” Mrs. Sickel said, that will be virtually trouble-free. She described FTTH as “future-proof”, in that it is secure and able to provide all services now and in the

future. “Fiber can handle” a huge amount of traffic, Joy said. “With copper, we were limited in what we could pro-vide.”

Work will continue through the winter months, Mrs. Sickel and Joy said. Telcom Construction of Clearwater, MN, and subcontractors, in-cluding Thomas Georges’ CCS, are doing the work.

“We’re very pleased with the quality of people they (see above) have brought to town,” Mrs. Sickel said. She noted that the work crews “stay here, shop here, eat here and purchase here,” which is great for the econo-my of Falls City.

Joy said the project is “on schedule”, thanks in large part to RVW Inc., Colum-bus, a firm that specializes in telecommunications en-gineering that designed the system and is in charge of quality control.

The system will include 26 miles of mainline fiber, Joy said, and 64 miles of “service drop” from outside of homes/businesses to the mainline fiber. More than 4,100 fibers will enter the SNC central office.

All of this at no cost. Whit-ney stressed that “bills will be the same. There is no cost to our customers.”

With its capability, the fi-ber system has “expansion built in,” said Whitney. That will translate into excellent economic possibilities in ar-eas such as Falls City’s In-dustrial Park.

“We’re really excited,” Mrs. Sickel said. “We want our new system to benefit all in Falls City.” She said the con-struction phase has been “the least invasive as possible.”

Fiber optics are long, thin strands of very pure glass about the diameter of a hu-man hair. They are arranged in bundles called fiber optic cables and use light instead of electricity to carry a sig-nal. The light signals repre-sent data, which is capable of traveling the speed of light.

“One bundle of fiber cable, not much thicker than a pencil, can carry ALL of the world’s current communica-tions traffic,” Whitney said.

Homes with direct fiber communications experience an increased value of $5,000. The U.S. ranks eighth among the world’s economies in terms of FTTH penetration.

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